Now- in the
missis
When a fanner has {Raked his
| hopes ott one crop lor producing:
"h the money necessary forhim:o
* live andkeep his family in com
fo?t, he is taking a gambler's
i chance, according to Mr. C R.
?4 Hudson, who, through the med
iant of the County Agricultural
Agents, is planning a "Safe Farm
I iaf campaign. It is not safe to
. plant one crop any one year.
given this crop, it may bring a
- IG&taKaHBi* ? . #
rF- Svrgg m f - r
Saturday evening unless the rail
Irjads grant their eigfct hour day
demands were ratified here today
by local u nion leaders from south
eastern teritoiy,' and by a simi
lar conference of representatives
of the southwest held atSt Louis.
The brotherhood heads will tell
the railroad conference com
mittee in New York Thnrsday
that if an agreement is not reach
ed this week for the e^ablish
mfcnt of an eight-hour basic day
with time and a half for over
time firike orders already issued
to local organisations will be
come effective. Th? demands
are just what they were ia& fall,
when" President Wilson averted
a ^rike after the call was out by
iadacing Congress jo pass the
Adamson law,' which never jias
been put into effect, pending a
decision on its constitutionality
by the Supreme Court, ?
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' w ? -?We '' ?: <g? "?<?'' , ,
Dance tunes are said to hdp
penmanship. Now if some one
will invent a pocket phonograph
we may be able to read some^of
the letters we get.
in Eastern North Carolina and
serve also, to break down the
old time prejudice against the
Sock law, will be held in Wil
mington March 28 29 when there
will be a gathering of those in*
teresled in &ock raising to wit
nessan exhibition of breeding.
n arrang
ment Sta
vice, the
of Gom
sra Settle
? Washirigton,_M
for more or tew ]
among the neutra
broke with
ledto m
Wilson'fec
brtakbrji
bring forth 1
officials belli
several of the 11
nations would
WHson
re disclosed t?^
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Lonjiont March 13?In the'
course Of a# interview granted
to the Copenhagen corre?pon
anExchanfeeTelegrsph despatch,
Count von Ber^orf^ interrogat
ed as whether he thought there
depends on our U-boat
!. If we sink an Amcri
i> we shall get war. If not
feed me correspon
ly sinks any British
American citizens
this Count von Bera&off
>d: 4<That kali the same."
New York, March 12.? Accord
ing to reports current in the
fssssznax
of ^l?f? S
the entente powers.
The $41,000,000 which came
la&' Saturday from Canada was
said to hare contained.aconside
rable amount of gold shipped
from Petrograd by way of the
Trans-Siberia^ Railroad from
Vallfvo&ok to Vancouver. Some
French gold also figured in this
particular consignment, accord
of police under command of
Major Joseph Norton was sent
tonight to Boonton, N. j? % the
Jersey City authorities to guard
the seven billiop gallon reservoir
which forms the water supply of
J ersey City. The lesevoir has a
shore line of eight niiles. ' ?1
This &e'p was taken immediate*
ly upon the disclosure of an al
leged German plot to dynamite
the dam of the resevoir which
holds in check enough water to
flood the entire^ Rocka way and
Passaic valleys.
So argent did the Jersey; City
commissioners corisiderljhesitua
tion that they telephoned to the
governor ani implored him to
send the militia for guard duty.
| They toldihe governor that if
the dam were dynamited the
: waten rpleased.would wipe out
military service. He then order
ed the comander of the national
guard-to furnish the men with
rifles and other military accout
rements, as a preliminary &ep
toward protection of the dam,
until father measures could be
taken.
Spreadihg Out tite Civil Service.
Po?ma?er General Burleson
has announced that the president
hos decided to put all first, second
the civil service by an execative
order to become effective on the
fir? of next month: President
Taft before he left his office
placed the fourth class poU
ma$er within the rule* and if the
president Clicks to hid determi
nation all po&rna&ers hereafter